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Will Riyadh and Moscow agree on Syria solution?
Monday, Oct 12, 2015 Beirut: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s weekend meeting with the powerful Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman was more than a Kodak moment for the two leaders. The wars of Ukraine, Yemen, and Syria were all on the… …read more Source:...
Why The Russians Won’t Win Against Extremists in Iraq | Niqash
Controversial alliance: Protestors supporting Russia and Syria in Moscow in 2012. (photo: اندري سميرنوف) For many Iraqis, the news that came last week of an alliance between Syria, Russia, Iran and Iraq was shocking. And it is not just in Syria that this Russian intervention is threatening to carve even deeper fault lines in the Middle East. In...
Opinion: The US–Russian Quagmire in the Middle East
During last Thursday’s US Senate hearing tackling military and political affairs, those present unanimously agreed that by interfering in Syria, Russia has become a growing danger to the United States in terms of influence and interests. They also agreed that Russia is posing a threat to the security of the Middle East. One of the experts...
Ukraine bans flights by all Russian airlines from Oct 25
Kiev said Monday it was banning all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine from Oct. 25 in a tit-for-tat response to Moscow’s decision to impose a similar ban last month. …read more Source: The Daily...
Ukraine bans flights by all Russian airlines from Oct 25
Move comes in response to a similar ban on Ukrainian flights imposed by Moscow last month …read more Source:...
Ukraine bans all Russian airlines from Oct 25
Punitive measure appeared to concern only two carriers because Kyiv had earlier barred bigger Russian firms in reprisal for Moscow’s annexation of Crimea …read more Source: World...
Don’t trust Putin, ‘prepare for worst’: Ukraine’s Poroshenko
Russian president’s record of unpredictability makes it harder to trust Putin, says Ukrainian president …read more Source: World...
Russia's Gazprom resumes gas supplies to Ukraine
NNA – Russian natural gas exporter Gazprom has resumed supplies to Ukraine, Chief Executive Alexei Miller said in a statement on Monday, after deliveries were halted in July over a pricing dispute be …read more Source: National News...
Russia resumes gas supplies to Ukraine: Gazprom
Ukraine stopped buying Russian gas in June after crisis talks broke down …read more Source:...
Belarus re-elects ‘last dictator in Europe’ for fifth term
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko won a fifth term in office by a landslide on Sunday in an election that could see an easing of relations with the West and raise questions about his ties to Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Lukashenko’s re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition...
